ARBEIT MACHT FREI

Based on a short documentary I viewed entitled ‘Hitler, Jews and Genocide’, I could clearly see that the Nazis in Germany of the 1930s were an unfortunate breed of the human species as they were grasped tightly in the hands of Satan. When the Nazis came to power during that time, they severely tortured and killed millions of Jews. This was known as the holocaust. The holocaust was the systematic execution of as many Jews as possible. This process was mainly done by the SS under the supervision of Heinrich Himmler. The mastermind behind this atrocious event was the greatest dictator of all times, Sir Adolf Hitler.

Hitler despised the Jewish community for he regarded them as people of an impure race. Whoever whom he assumed was not the so called pure Aryans the Germans considered themselves, he wished to execute. I think the problem was not whether the Jews were pure or impure. The thing is that Jews did not believe that Jesus was their messenger and also they managed to pull through smoothly during the Great Depression when all others were in a terrible financial state. I think the issue with Hitler was that he simply had green eyes. Jealousy had over powered his mind, making him make a rash decision by framing the Jews as dishonest, money lending, communist people.

He placed the Jews in concentration camps where they were deprived of their individuality instead they were given numbers. It was sad to see people being deprived of their own names and given numbers as though they were some sort of object being labeled. In 1941, the pitiful Jews were evacuated to ghettos where families squeezed into one room and there was scarce supply of food and water. When I heard the pain in a child’s cry, it sent shivers down my spine. People who were caught smuggling food, risked public execution. I was pretty amazed though by the fact that a little Jewish kid was dropping out so many vegetables from his pants when he got caught. I wonder where all that space came from? I guess when you are desperate for something you will try and get the most of it by hook or by crook.

The Germans realized that shooting the Jews down was a failure as it was a slow and messy process. They then came up with the most brilliant idea ever. They gassed the Jews. Honestly speaking, hats off to their master plan as it was a job well done. The chambers, the cyanide, the crematorium, everything was perfectly prepared. It was only terrifying when the narrator mentioned, “there were to be machines to kill human beings by the millions”. I have heard of machines designed to kill fishes and chickens by the millions but not humans. An inhuman technology of the 20^th century it was to kill the human race by the millions. Why? Why was Hitler such an animal? If I had the chance to put some serious sense into his head I would tell him that there was only one race that God created and that is the Human race. There is also only one religion that any God would want us to follow and that is the religion of Love.

The time for resettlement arrived and Jews all over Europe were scurrying about to get to resettlement camps. It was a pity that they were not aware that in resettlement camps they were going to be settled once and for all. There was one particular part that really disturbed me. It was when the Jews got on to the train to get to the camps. The narrator said with so much emotion, “The minute we got in, the minute they closed it on us with a bolt, terrible cries began inside in Polish, Yiddish, German pleading, requests, there’s no air. We’re suffocating, suffocating, suffocating”. It gave me goose bumps. I disliked the part where the dead bodies were looked at as recycling objects. Women’s hair were shaved, gold and false teeth were being pulled out and spectacles being collected in a heap. Was Hitler so sadistic that he could not allow a person to be cremated in a perfect condition? There was one part I enjoyed though and that was when a splash of brain fell on Himmler’s coat when he went for a visit to a concentration camp. I was laughing my head off.

Hitler disliked the Jews for he claimed them to be a dishonest bunch of people. First of all, he made a false impression to the German public and the International Red Cross by producing a propaganda film that portrayed the lives of the Jews being comfortable in resettlement camps when actually half of them were dead. Secondly, he should have looked into a mirror and asked himself, now who’s the big fat liar? A coward he was for destroying all forms of evidence of the mass murder mission. If he was right that the Jews were so called impure and that they must be murdered why would he remove evidence and create unnecessary films? Some of the Jews were also cowards for jumping into the pits to commit suicide. I salute those who fought bravely in the ghettos for 33 days.

The Jews of this 21^st century are now quite powerful and seem like a dangerous lot of people. They are causing devastation in Palestine and are also supplying sophisticated war equipments to other countries. Israel supplied Kfir fighter-bombers to the Sri Lankan government which was used to wipe out innocent Tamils in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. An anonymous commented one day as I was watching this documentary. He said that Hitler was stupid for he should have killed more Jews. Well I opposed his statement because I think that if Hitler did not start this act of injustice maybe the current Jews would not be doing all of this. I am guessing that they are finally showing out their frustration on the world for what had happened approximately 70 years ago when the Germans were being oblivious towards them.

Religion and Science believe that the world is gradually coming to an end. Humans will perish totally. Some say the Sun is going to explode. Some say it’s going to be an asteroid. Some say natural disaster. Hollywood says the earths crust will open up. I say it’s going to be war. If only we could avoid war and torture, maybe we would lead better and longer lives. People like Hitler tried to spark something that lead to something worse today. If only every single person on this earth listened and applied the song ‘Imagine’ sung by John Lennon, truly the world would be as one. One race called humans, one religion called love, and one peaceful place called EARTH.

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